>>>>> "Per" == Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Per> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: >> Thanks for the explanations. Could you try to see whether the patch >> I sent will fix the problem? I believe it should create a .lyx >> directory in root home directory and work correctly from there. >> >> Is it an acceptable solution? Per> It's the correct fix, yes, but I don't think it helps us since Per> it's apparently not allowed to write to home directories on Per> Debian's buildds. What about that: mkdir /tmp/tempuserdir lyx -userdir /tmp/tempuserdir -e latex foo.lyx rm -rf /tmp/tempuserdir Per> The best would be if configure.py was removed completely and Per> everything was detected at runtime (or defaults used, or Per> whatever). Yes, this is something I would like to see for at least some of the stuff. It is not clear however what the runtime penalty would be. JMarc